Ben Brachfeld is a freelance reporter based in Brooklyn. His work has also appeared in Gotham Gazette, City & State, and Gothamist. Reach out to him via email at benbrachfeld@bklyner.com, or on Tw
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Vito Mustaciulo, via NYCAThe Daily News’ Tuesday exposé on the “toxic work environment” fostered by NYCHA general manager Vito Mustaciuolo [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/executive-team/vito-mustaciuolo.page] is rocking the nation’s largest public housing authority, torpedoing the confidence of elected officials in a public servant touted
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg ended her transatlantic sailboat voyage Wednesday after docking in Coney Island, capping off a two-week endeavor documented on social media aimed at showing how one can avoid greenhouse gas emissions on long trips. Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, departed from Plymouth, England
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679 Grand Street in Williamsburg. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerSibte Hassan’s halal burger has been described [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/bk-jani-pakistani-restaurant-brooklyn.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock] by some as the best [https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-york/bushwick/best-nyc-halal-food-burger-bk-jani-bushwick] in New York City, halal or otherwise.
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Gowanus Adult Family Shelter will open at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 6th Street in Fall of 2019 in what was planned as a hotel. Liena Zagare/Bklyner GOWANUS – The city is planning to site a homeless shelter in Gowanus, Bklyner has learned. Officials will be holding a public
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The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens announced on Tuesday that decades-old accusations of sexual abuse against two priests had been deemed “credible,” and that the priests would be defrocked and removed from public ministry. The Diocese review board, a unit composed of non-clergy which assesses the validity of sexual
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PARK SLOPE – Officials took a grilling from Park Slope residents at a Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] meeting Tuesday regarding two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/]. Christine Quinn at the Community Board 7 meeting on the two planned 4th Avenue shelters (Photo:
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CARROLL GARDENS – Brooklyn kids who love comic books have a new place to hang out and get creative without parents lurking around, in the form of a new comic shop called loot. Interior of loot (Photo: Catherine Michelle Bartlett)Joe Einhorn, the founder of the online retailer Fancy and a
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PARK SLOPE – Opponents of two planned Park Slope homeless shelters alleged at a public contract hearing on Thursday that the city, the homeless services provider Women in Need (WIN), and the developers Slate and Adam America have inflated the contracts’ value by approximately $73.7 million, money they said was
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PARK SLOPE – The city will spend $261 million over nine years [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/] to operate two new homeless shelters in Park Slope—scheduled to open on 4th Avenue in September and December of this year. However, not much more information can be found on the facilities from the draft contracts available
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Gowanus Canal seen from the 9th Street Bridge (Photo: Nathan Haselby)GOWANUS – Business owners in the “industrial business zone” of Gowanus made it known to officials on Wednesday that they feel left behind by the neighborhood’s larger rezoning, urging the de Blasio administration to take steps to protect manufacturing